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Finn Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$565k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.3MHealth$862kYouth Development$800kRecreation & Sports$335kHousing & Shelter$290kReligion$288kFood & Nutrition$285kEducation$173kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEALS ON WHEELS WALKER COUNTY$35,000
UNITY CHURCH OF WIMBERLEY$30,000
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH OF HUNTSVILLE$30,000
THE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS AREA INC$30,000
BURKE CENTER FOR YOUTH$30,000
HIS JOSHUA HOUSE$25,000
BASE CAMP CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
CAMP OF THE HILLS$25,000
HONOR VETERANS NOW$25,000
OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE$25,000
PHOENIX CENTER$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE HIGHLAND LAKES INC$20,000
CASA FOR THE LAKE HIGHLANDS AREA INC$20,000
HIGHLAND LAKES FAMILY CRISIS CENTER$20,000
PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES: $15k → 6%MEALS ON WHEELS WALKER COUNTY: $35k → 20%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $20k → 14%IMAMA KIDS: $5k → 12%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES: $15k → 6%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $20k → 14%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES: $15k → 6%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $20k → 14%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES: $15k → 6%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $20k → 14%WILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10k → 6%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $25k → 9%SENIOR CENTER OF WALKER COUNTY: $20k → 20%WILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10k → 6%SENIOR CENTER OF WALKER COUNTY: $20k → 20%WILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10k → 6%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $25k → 9%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES: $10k → 6%OPPORTUNITIES FOR WILLIAMSON & BURNET COUNTIES: $10k → 6%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $25k → 9%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $25k → 9%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $15k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $15k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $15k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $10k → 10%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $20k → 9%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $15k → 9%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $10k → 9%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $10k → 9%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NV
IA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
SC
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 48 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
7

Total granted

$4.8M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+14%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TB
    THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +26%
  • TH
    THE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +379%
  • PC
    PHOENIX CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • WO
    WELLSPRIN OF DIVINE LOVE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • WC
    WYATT'S CLUBHOUSE MARBLE FALLS INCLUSIVE PLAY GROUP
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • DS
    DRIPPING SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +14%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
2
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…

Human Services
3
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
4
The Retreat Home for Children

Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.

Crime & Legal
5
Family Abuse Center Inc

The family abuse center exists to eliminate domestic violence in central texas by sheltering victims of domestic violence and by preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education.

Human Services
6
The Sanctuary Foster Care Services

Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.

Human Services
7
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
8
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
9
Texas Casa Inc

To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.

Civil Rights
10
Shelter Agencies for Families in East Texas

To provide shelter to abused families.

Human Services
11
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
12
Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Highland Lakes Family Crisis Center; the most unlike its peers is The Refugee Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $310,000 · OtherTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INCTHE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS: $240,000 · OtherTHE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLSUNITY CHURCH OF WIMBERLEY: $160,000 · OtherUNITY CHURCH OF WIMBERLEYMISSION MCNEIL: $158,000 · OtherTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $150,000 · OtherHIGHLAND LAKES FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $145,000 · OtherBASE CAMP CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · OtherWHITBY ROAD ALLIANCE INC DBA PROVIDENCE PLACE: $127,000 · OtherWILDWOOD HILLS RANCH OF IOWA: $120,000 · OtherPARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $105,000 · OtherNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $105,000 · OtherFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $120,000 · OtherHONOR VETERANS NOW: $110,000 · Other+22 more: $982,500 · Other+22 moreOPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $165,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR R…WILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSON-…THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENT …MEALS ON WHEELS - WALKER COUNTYTX INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WH…THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGEE…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesPHOENIX CENTER: $225,000 · Recreation & SportsPHOENIX CEN…CAMP OF THE HILLS: $170,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP OF THE…SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLY…HIS JOSHUA HOUSE: $175,000 · HealthTHE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $60,000 · HealthSAAFE HOUSE: $30,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $7,500 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE HIGHLAND LAKES INC: $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP AGAPE: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM FOCUS INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentKATY CARES INC: $95,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCASA FOR THE HIGHLAND LAKES AREA: $165,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,967,500Human Services$490,000Recreation & Sports$485,000Health$287,500Youth Development$255,000Food & Nutrition$210,000Civil Rights$165,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $310,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS: $240,000 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetPHOENIX CENTER: $225,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE HIGHLAND LAKES INC: $180,000 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetHIS JOSHUA HOUSE: $175,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetCAMP OF THE HILLS: $170,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetOPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $165,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetCASA FOR THE HIGHLAND LAKES AREA: $165,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $150,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetHIGHLAND LAKES FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $145,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetBASE CAMP CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetWHITBY ROAD ALLIANCE INC DBA PROVIDENCE PLACE: $127,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $120,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHONOR VETERANS NOW: $110,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetWILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $110,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT: $95,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetKATY CARES INC: $95,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $87,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS - WALKER COUNTYTX INC: $75,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWILDWOOD HILLS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $55,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP AGAPE: $55,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAAFE HOUSE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM FOCUS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDRIPPING SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget180 Ranch Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMANA KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE HIGHLAND LAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds HIS JOSHUA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP OF THE HILLS ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOR THE HIGHLAND LAKES AREA ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND LAKES FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BASE CAMP CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITBY ROAD ALLIANCE INC DBA PROVIDENCE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds HONOR VETERANS NOW ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT ↗
  • Who funds KATY CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS - WALKER COUNTYTX INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDWOOD HILLS INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP AGAPE ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · McCasland Family Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Finn Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finn Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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